 | Anne Turkos |
Q. I wonder if you have in your archives a singular sporting event which brought a conference championship to the university under most unusual circumstances a little more than 50 years ago. The team that won the conference championship was not part of the university’s athletics program; it was a club team. This Cinderella team won the conference championship on its first attempt!
—Al Kuckhoff ’51
A. A. The answer to your sports mystery
is Gymkana! We found many articles in the Diamondback chronicling Gymkana’s accomplishments during the 1949–50 season, including its winning the Southern Conference Championship.  We also found your name mentioned frequently in the articles and were delighted to encounter a photograph of you performing on the flying rings in the Feb. 24, 1950, issue
Questions for Anne Turkos, university archivist for University Libraries, may be sent to terpmag@umd.edu.
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